Translation Sri guru Granth Sahib   By Prof. Sahib Singh

Professor Sahib Singh (16 February, 1892 - 29 October 1977) was a renowned Sikh academic who made a tremendous contribution to Sikh literature. He was an exceptional grammarian, author, scholar and theologian born in a Hindu family in the village of Phattevali in Sialkot district of undivided Punjab. He was named Natthu Ram by his father, Hiranand, who kept a small shop in the village. Soon the family shifted to Tharpal, another nearby village in the same district. As a youth, Natthu Ram was apprenticed to the village Maulawi (Muslim teacher), Hayat Shah, son of the famous Punjabi poet, Hasham, upon whom his royal patron, Ranjit Singh, the Maharaja of the Punjab, had settled a permanent jagir. Winning a scholarship at his middle standard examination, Natthu Ram joined the high school at Pasrur, where he decided to become a Sikh, receiving the rites of the Khalsa in 1906. Upon joining the Khalsa panth, his took the name Sahib Singh. The untimely death of his father made the situation hard for him, yet he managed to plough through first Dyal Singh College, Lahore, and then the Government College, Lahore where he obtained his bachelor's degree. In 1917 he joined the faculty at Guru Nanak Khalsa College, Gujranwala as a lecturer in Sanskrit.